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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2023 05:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Back after a long hiatus to talk about book 2 of my favorite series of 2022 and how it was relevant to my life imploding.]]></description>
		
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					<description><![CDATA[If I Had Your Face strikes similar notes of melancholy to the other Korean literature I've read despite being written in English. ]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2022 03:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Long time no type, Wordpress! I've read 3 (almost 4) books since the last time I wrote a review, so I have some catching up to do. Let's kick off with a great collection from my literary idol, Alice Munro.]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2022 20:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I'm back at it after a monthlong absence with praise for the finale of the Broken Earth trilogy.]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2022 13:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The philosophical meat and potatoes of this book of city-themed prose poems quickly starts to taste like leftovers.]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2022 21:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This series is picking up momentum with a looming Final Fantasy-esque existential threat from the moon.]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2022 05:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Easily my least favorite book that I've read in 2022 so far.]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2022 05:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I liked this book much more than the other N.K. Jemisin series I tried, but I still wasn't convinced until the big narrative twist.]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2022 17:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The interesting form factor of graphic journalism combines with sparse, immediate narrative to make Other Russias a quick and interesting read.]]></description>
		
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